No denari

[Dark_horse_spirit]

If I remember playing this game a few years ago I was stricken at how fast I went broke trying to maintain the bare bones of Armies. I recently read a book about Julias Flavious called "The Last Peigan". It goes on to say that his strongest asset when he was Caesar of Gaul was his ability to collect taxes and stay with in budget. Why does this mod depict it being so hard to aquire or keep money. I enjoyed the gameplay and the reskiins. I however uninstalled it becaise of the denari, or lack of.

DHS

[Dark_horse_spirit]

Not sure what this is doing here, it was soppessed to be with the Julianus mod, if you want to just take it off that would be good, as I already have another thread about this topic..

DHS

[julianus heraclius]

If I remember playing this game a few years ago I was stricken at how fast I went broke trying to maintain the bare bones of Armies. I recently read a book about Julias Flavious called "The Last Peigan". It goes on to say that his strongest asset when he was Caesar of Gaul was his ability to collect taxes and stay with in budget. Why does this mod depict it being so hard to aquire or keep money. I enjoyed the gameplay and the reskiins. I however uninstalled it becaise of the denari, or lack of.

DHS

The biggest issue is the increase in the standing army which of course will drain the budget. The only way to correct this would be to disband as much of the army as possible (which would be unhistorical), or as I have found you will get into the balck (if all goes well) after 30 turns or so.

The aim of this mod is to use the army that you have got to deal with the enemies you face. You have a starting budget that you have to decide how best to use it in the first turn, either build buildings to improve the economy in the long term, recruit additional units, upgrade existing units, or all three.

This is a challenge and one that some people do not like to face but that is your choice. The 355AD campaign is the hardest because Julian starts off with only few provinces compared to Constantius II. The key here is to conquor and gain money that way.

I hope this helps to explain the philosophy behind the gameplay.

Cheers

[Valentinian Victor]

The biggest issue is the increase in the standing army which of course will drain the budget. The only way to correct this would be to disband as much of the army as possible (which would be unhistorical), or as I have found you will get into the balck (if all goes well) after 30 turns or so.

The aim of this mod is to use the army that you have got to deal with the enemies you face. You have a starting budget that you have to decide how best to use it in the first turn, either build buildings to improve the economy in the long term, recruit additional units, upgrade existing units, or all three.

This is a challenge and one that some people do not like to face but that is your choice. The 355AD campaign is the hardest because Julian starts off with only few provinces compared to Constantius II. The key here is to conquor and gain money that way.

I hope this helps to explain the philosophy behind the gameplay.

Cheers

And lets not forget that historicially Constantius II sent Julian into Gaul with a very small force to deal with a very large and nasty problem. Gaul had been all but overrun by the Allemanii and other 'barbarian' tribes. Seven major cities had been captured by the barbarians, most of the Rhine frontier fortresses had been taken or destroyed.

The army in Gaul, such as it was, was demoralised and ready to rebel at the drop of a hat. Constantius in fact did not really care if Julian retook Gaul or not, most historians, ancient and modern, agree that Constantius purpose in send Julian to retake Gaul was for Julian to be killed on campaign. At the same time as Julian was campaigning Constantius was engaged against the barbarians with an army of 25,000 men, one of Constantius' generals was also campaigning against the barbarians with an army of 25,000 men, yet Julian was only given an army of approximately 12,000 to retake all of Gaul, a feat Constantius believed was beyond Julian as Julian was considered to be an effeminate greek scholar, and not a warrior general able to take up the task.

Constantius appears to have told the senior generals in Gaul who had reserve troops not to assist Julian if he asked for their aid.
So, the fact that Julian could not raise taxes so as to build up his army is an entirely historical factor and the mod does a good job of simulating this.

It was not helped by Julian subsequently lowering taxes in Gaul ostenstibly to relieve the burden on the citizens, but probably to raise his stature with them.